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Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March

The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month...

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Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...

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GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into this GNOME 48 release...

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Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...

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How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carried out some tests using the HiFive Unmatched to look at how the Ubuntu Linus RISC-V performance has evolved from Ubuntu 21.04 when I first tested that RISC-V quad-core developer board, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and now the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS packages.

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. After these patches went through 14 rounds of review since December, it looks like this AMD broadcast TLB invalidation support is now ready for the mainline Linux kernel!..

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Raspberry Pi CM4 Now Available With "Extended Temperature" Variants

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in the Compute Module 4 line-up...

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Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...

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Intel Preps Linux For eUSB2V2 To Enhance USB 2.0 For Higher Resolution Laptop Webcams

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March

Last September the USB Implementers Forum quietly published an update to the USB 2.0 specification... The Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" supplement to provide for better performance with significantly higher data rates to USB 2.0 while maintaining the low-voltage electrical interface...